
without even stopping the recording! You can even add special effects this way, as I did with my Darth Vader movie. For instance if you accidently captured a bit of your hand in a shot, you can switch to Photoshop to remove the mistake, than switch back to iStopMotion, replacing the bad capture with your cleaned up one.

It gives you the option to edit a recorded frame with an external program such as Photoshop. There are even more great features of iStopMotion. Again, this helps you imagine how the scene will look once animated, and gives you an easy reference to make any adjustments if necessary. "Blinking" flashes the current, live image and the previously recorded image at a user-set interval.You can move your objects and then see in real time how far you moved them in relation to the most recent pictures. Onion skinning: gives you the ability to look back at up to five previous frames, each superimposed over the other.


It was an arduous process, even worse was having to wait until the film was developed to see how things turned out! Recording animations directly to your hard drive, without any of the hassles of trying to do it on film is a dream come true for any animator, and Boinx has made it even better by adding lots of cool and extremely useful features. Now when I was a wee geek, I used to make stop motion films on Super 8 and 16 mm film.
